C. G. P. Gre, an American living in London, has created an excellent video explaining the difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England.
C. G. P. Gre, an American living in London, has created an excellent video explaining the difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England.
If you are a Gmail user, you may or may not be aware of the cool 'labs' features that improve the mail app. Lifehacker lists 10 of the best. If you already know about them, it's still worth checking them out incase you have forgotten about some of them.
RunPee lets you know the best time to nip out for a pee whilst watching a movie. (Includes the latest movies)
A 35-minute presentation by Merlin Mann on time management and productivity.
There are some great tips in this presentation in particular using email subject lines better. I'm going to make it my mission to improve my subject lines as I put absolutely no effort into subject lines, especially when having a conversation via email. [via]
7 cheat sheets in PDF format for Google, Windows, Mac OSX, Firefox, Gmail and Google Reader. The Google reader one was very useful, I didn't realise that you could view your feeds as a list.
75 skills every man should know including how to take a photo (I think I'm halfway there), swimming three different strokes (yep, although I haven't stepped in a pool since I was about 12), speak a foreign language (bore da?) and describe a glass of wine in one sentence without using the terms nutty, fruity, oaky, finish, or kick (all I can come up with is good, alright, bad. Same for beer)
101 tools to convert video, music, images, PDFs and more. Media Convert looks like a great tool for converting video (as well as tons of other types of file) and can even convert video for my N800.
You may want to wash them after untangling.
A step-by-step guide to using chopsticks. Give me a fork any day. [via]
Lifehack's guide on how to criticise someone without causing offence.
Smashing Magazine has a huge list of keyboard shortcuts for popular applications such as browsers and mail clients. You'll probably know most of them but there are probably a few that you have forgotten about.
Mashable has compiled a list of keyboard shortcuts for popular web services such as GMail, Google Reader and Wikipedia.
Video tutorials on how to do 20 different magic tricks.
Mashable reviews 23 different websites and applications that help you download videos from YouTube.
A handy chart that explains just what '2nd cousin twice removed' means. [via]
Command Tab has a guide on how to upgrade your iPod's Hard Drive. It's fairly detailed but could have done with a lot more photos of actually taking the iPod apart and replacing the hard drive. Still, it's useful for those looking to upgrade an old iPod. [via]
Bono's Red campaign has raked in $18 million for good causes since launching last year and whilst this figure may seem a lot, it's meager when compared to the $100 million it is estimated to have cost to promote the campaign.
Julie Cordua, VP-marketing at Red defended the spending. "It's not a charity program of them writing a one-time check. It has to make good business sense for the company so the money will continue to flow to the Global Fund over time."
But Ben Davis, creative director at Word Picture Ideas and co-creator of Red parody site, buylesscrap.org said, "The Red campaign proposes consumption as the cure to the world's evils," said Ben Davis, creative director at Word Pictures Ideas, co-creator of the site. "Can't we just focus on the real solution -- giving money?"
25 tips for ensuring that you get a good night's sleep.
Lifehacker has posted some tips on how to sound more intelligent when talking.
A very different way of peeling an egg. [via]
33 tips for coping with jetlag.
Steve Rubel's guide to turning Gmail into your personal nerve centre. It covers turning Gmail into a massive personal database, getting real-time news updates within Gmail, automatically storing your bookmarks and managing Calendar and To-Dos.
A step-by-step guide to escaping from handcuffs.
A small guide on how to give a good compliment. [via]
Lifehacker has posted a video of how to wrap up your headphones when you are not using them so that they don't become tangled.
"Ever buy stuff from stores that offer a 30 day price protection guarantee? If they lower their price within 30 days of when you purchased it, they'll refund you the difference. Sounds great... except how often do you remember to the check price again? "
PriceProtectr aims to help you save money by monitoring the products that you have bought. If the price drops within 30 days PriceProtectr will send you a notification so that you can go and get your money back. [via]
NowNow.com is a new answer service from Amazon. Enter a question and Mechanical Turks will quickly reply via email with 3 answers. I wanted to test the service but it's invite only at the moment. [via]
How to make and keep New Year’s resolutions (if you haven't broken them already). [via]
Useless information that you may need one day. [via]
ISBNSpy is a handy little website that will compare prices of products on Amazon based on the ISBN that you provide. The site is lightweight so is suitable for mobile phones. Very handy for seeing if that book or DVD in a sale really is a good bargain.
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, and YouTube in particular, here's a step-by-step guide to getting the perfect wetshave. Personally I have used an electric shaver for many years due to my lack of wetshaving skills but you never get the same results as you do with a wetshave. A guide like this is just what I need. [via]
50 common interview questions and how to answer them. [via]
We all know how difficult it is to get through to a human when calling a company. There are endless loops of press this number or say this. Thankfully someone has compiled a list of companies and the quickest way of getting through to them. This database will be handy to US customers but we need one for the UK. Does anyone know of a UK equivalent?
WorkFriendly lets you browse websites in work by making them look like Word documents. [via]
A handy guide on how to neatly fold a t-shirt. This guide is much easier to follow than the Chinese (or Japanese) one that did the rounds a few years back.
Tips on how to win at Monopoly. The guide is for the US version of Monopoly but I think that it aplies to all other versions. [via]
Whilst sweltering in this blistering heatwave we're having, it would probably be a good time to see how you can conserver water. The BBC have put together a helpful tool that will estimate how much water you use in a day.
A word of warning - try not to use the same password for different accounts. My brother found out the hard way that using the same password on account can make it easier for hackers to gain access to more than one of your accounts.
He came back from holiday to discover that some guy in Pakistan had somehow gained access to his PayPal account and sent £1,200 worth of phones to himself. And as my brother used the same password to access his email as he did his PayPal account it was easy for the hacker to take over his email account. A call to his ISP revealed that the hacker had added a forwarding address and was forwarding all emails onto a Hotmail account.
Thankfully he should get all the money returned to him but it was an eye-opener for him and he is now starting to use different passwords for his accounts. If you want an easy way of generating passwords, Hashapass can generate strong passwords based on a master password and a parameter.
A step-by-step guide to solving Sudoku without thinking. Not being a Sudoku player, I'm not sure if this process of elimination method is easier than actually solving the puzzle the regular way. [via]
A helpful guide to solving Sudoku puzzles using a medium puzzle as a guide. I've always been meaning to learn Sudoku but have never got around to it... plus I'm crap with numbers! [via]
How to open a bottle of beer using another bootle of beer. [via]
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